Russia cyber attack

Britain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacksThe Saigon Times Daily Russian President Vladimir Putin and a masked security officer stand at a shooting gallery of the new GRU military intelligence headquarters building as he visits it in Moscow, Russia November 8, 2006 – PHOTO: REUTERS LONDON (REUTERS) - Britain accused Russian military intelligence on Thursday of directing a host of cyber attacks aimed at undermining Western democracies by sowing confusion in everything from sport to transport and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In a British assessment based on work by its National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Russian military intelligence (GRU) was cast as a pernicious cyber aggressor which used a network of hackers to spread discord across the world. GRU, Britain said, was almost certainly behind the BadRabbit and World Anti-Doping Agency attacks of 2017, the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2016 and the theft of … [Read more...] about Britain says Russian military intelligence behind host of global cyber attacks

Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks. Putin gave no information on the nature or possible origins of the cyber-attacks AFP/Jewel SAMAD "During the period of the World Cup, almost 25 million cyber-attacks and other criminal acts on the information structures in Russia, linked in one way or another to the World Cup, were neutralised," Putin said during a meeting on Sunday with security services. The president, whose comments were reported by the Kremlin on Monday (Jul 16), gave no information on the nature or possible origins of the cyber-attacks. "Behind this (World Cup) success lies huge preparatory, operational, analytical and information work, we operated at maximum capacity and concentration," said Putin. Russia, which hosted the World Cup from Jun 14 to Jul 15 in 11 cities and 12 stadiums, has been repeatedly accused by Western countries … [Read more...] about Russia targeted by almost 25 million cyber attacks during World Cup: Putin

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (R), and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford (L) testify before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 26, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of a $716 billion annual defense policy bill on Thursday, joining counterparts in the House of Representatives in labeling China and Russia as threats to the United States and its allies. The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, includes measures targeting the two “strategic competitors,” including a clampdown on trade rules and a ban on the Defense Department dealing with any entity that uses telecommunications equipment or services from Chinese companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. The bill also extends a limitation on U.S.-Russian military cooperation, “expresses the sense of the Senate” that it is U.S. policy to strengthen the defense of … [Read more...] about US Senate panel targets China, Russia in massive defense bill

Britain and the United States on Monday released a rare joint statement warning of "malicious cyber activity" carried out by the Russian state. The technical alert was issued by the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security. "The targets of this malicious cyber activity are primarily government and private-sector organizations, critical infrastructure providers and the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) supporting these sectors," the statement said. It warned everyone from internet service providers to home office customers to heed the warning, after the government agencies found cyber attacks targeting devices such as internet routers. "Russian state-sponsored actors are using compromised routers to conduct spoofing 'man-in-the-middle' attacks to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations," the … [Read more...] about UK, US govts warn of Russia’s ‘malicious cyber activity’

A hack on an Arizona election database during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was carried out by suspected criminal actors and not the Russian government, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Sunday. The official was responding to a report on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” citing an internal government document that Russian hackers successfully infiltrated computer systems associated with at least four U.S. states, including Arizona, leading up to the 2016 election. Hackers working for the Kremlin breached systems in Illinois, a county database in Arizona, a Tennessee state website and an information technology vendor in Florida, according to the previously undisclosed Oct. 28, 2016, assessment from the Department of Homeland Security, according to the program. But an administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said media reports had at times relied on outdated or incomplete information and conflated criminal hacking with Russian … [Read more...] about Arizona election database targeted in 2016 by criminals, not Russia: source